BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b9261d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240404T150000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240404T160000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/building-connective-ethnogr aphy-children-engaged-digital-age LOCATION:The Games Institute EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Building a Connective Ethnography with Children Engaged in the Digi tal\nAge CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Children are seeking their place in contemporary digital cultur es\,\nnotably through the use of mobile devices\, playing a variety of gam es\nwith friends and accessing social networking platforms\, resulting in\ ninterconnected performances in the digital setting. Therefore\, it was\nn ecessary to base it on connective ethnography to track the\ninteractions o f a group of children between physical and digital\nspaces during playtime with peers.\n\n_Register with Ticketfi!_\n[https://www.ticketfi.com/event /5563/building-a-connective-ethnography-with-children-engaged-in-the-digit al-age]\n\nThis event will be held in HYBRID format. Please join us in-per son at\nthe Games Institute\, EC1 at the University of Waterloo or virtual ly\nthrough Microsoft Teams.\n\nSPEAKER: Bruna Oliveira\n\nBRUNA is a Ph. D. candidate in Education at the Federal University of\nSergipe and a visi ting researcher at the University of Waterloo. She\nhas been researching t opics involving children's engagement with\ndigital games\, children's pla yful experiences with digital\ntechnologies\, children as content producer s\, and research\nmethodologies involving children in the digital era. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b99d9d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231120T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231120T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/emerging-voices-asian-ameri can-game-studies LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Emerging Voices in Asian/ American Game Studies CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:This panel highlights emerging scholars in Asian/American games \nstudies. Panelists will present recent and/or ongoing work\, sharing a\n glimpse of the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics\nin clude He’s analysis of NPC discourse\, particularly the phenomena\nof NP C streaming\, as an Asiatic form\, Ganzon’s examination of\nFilipino pol itical activism in digital games that extend public and\ncommunity spaces\ , and Howard’s inquiry on 'region locking' in online\ngames as racial pr actices. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b9b412 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231114T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231114T120000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/skins-deep-race-gender-and- nationality-esports LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Skins Deep: Race\, Gender\, and Nationality in eSports CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Since the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985\, Asia has rema ined the\ncenter of the manufacturing of video game hardware (China and\nS outheast Asia)\, the center of game innovation and the birthplace of\nmost game genres (Japan)\, and the largest reliable resource of\nconsumers (ne arly half of game players reside in Asia). DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b9c507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231102T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231102T153000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/fused-spectatorship LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON Canada SUMMARY:Fused Spectatorship CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Spectating digital games can be exciting. However\, due to its\ nvicarious nature\, spectators often wish to engage in the gameplay\nbeyon d just watching and cheering. To blur the boundaries between\nspectators a nd players\, we propose a novel approach called \"Fused\nSpectatorship\"\, where spectators watch their hands play games by\nloaning bodily control to a computational Electrical Muscle\nStimulation (EMS) system. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b9d6d9 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/psychology-fun-and-frustrat ion LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON Canada SUMMARY:The Psychology of Fun and Frustration CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An enduring appeal of interactive entertainment media such as v ideo\ngames is that they invite the user to co-create the on-screen\nexper ience. More than an invitation\, these experiences demand\nnear-constant a ttention from players—and do so on myriad dimensions\,\nincluding cognit ive (problem-solving)\, emotional (affective\nreactions)\, apparatus (cont rol or interface intuitiveness)\, exertional\n(physical activity) and soci al (attending to social agents). DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b9e6de DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231031T150000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231031T160000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/case-paratopian-design LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:The Case for Paratopian Design CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:What if we could make complex social and cultural questions pla yable?\nAnd what if we could do so through interactions with familiar digi tal\ninterfaces set in alternative presents and near futures? The work I\n will discuss sits at the intersection between the design traditions of\nsp eculative and critical design on the one hand\, and the philosophies\nand best practices of game design\, playful media and interaction\ndesign on t he other. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1b9f94f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231004T090000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231004T120000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/workshop-physiological-meas ures-games-and-vr-novel-tools-and LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Workshop on Physiological Measures for Games and VR: Novel Tools an d\nApproaches CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The utilization of physiological measures in games and virtual reality\n(VR) has garnered significant attention in recent years. This hyb rid\npanel covers the exploration of biometrics (or physiological measures )\nin game user research\, driven by advancements in sensing technologies\ nand the increased accessibility of signal processing tools. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1ba09bf DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231023T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231023T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/workshop-building-equitable -and-sustainable-game-development LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Workshop on Building Equitable and Sustainable Game Development\nEd ucation CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:With recent waves of layoffs\, high-profile workplace harassmen t cases\,\nand a notoriously short career length for gender minorities and people\nof colour\, the transition of new workers into the game industry\ ninvolves navigating a spate of barriers to equity and success that\nhave been understudied in academic research. This panel talks about\n\"The Firs t Three Years\"\, an ongoing longitudinal study of graduates of\ngame prog rams in Canada and the United States\, following the journey\nof 207 stude nts as they move into the game industry. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1ba1aaf DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/panel-emerging-voices-black -games-studies LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Panel on Emerging Voices in Black Games Studies CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:This panel highlights emerging scholars in Black game studies.\ nPanelists will present recent and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse\nof the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include\nBlac k worldbuilding in and across games (Fletcher)\, perceptions of\nBlack mal e exceptionalism in gaming cultures (Dashiell)\, and the\nrelationship bet ween avatar representation and Black user experience\nin social VR (DeVeau x). DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69d02e1ba2ade DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T153000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/student-speaker-series-spee ch-human-agent-interaction-nima LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Student Speaker Series: Speech in Human-Agent Interaction with Nima \nZargham CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Due to technological advancements\, communicating with computer systems\nusing natural language has become a casual phenomenon. Speech-ba sed\nsystems\, like Siri or Cortana\, have become widely popular among peo ple\ndue to their convenience. Speech interaction encompasses a social\nco mponent as it reflects the fundamental human capacity for\ncommunication a nd enables interpersonal engagement through verbal\nexchange. This makes h uman-agent interaction an essential topic of\nresearch in the field of hum an-computer interaction. DTSTAMP:20260403T211611Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR